Emdebian at LinuxLive! 2008, London.

October 28th, 2008

23rd to 25th October 2008, Olympia, London. Emdebian attended as an
exhibitor in the .ORG village, sponsored
by UKLINUX.NET, alongside Debian.

After the cancellation last year, Linux Expo was merged into MacLive
and CreativeLive as
LinuxLive Expo - note that the domain names for previous conferences
have all since lapsed. Emdebian shared the Debian stand in the .ORG
village. Neil Williams and Nick Bane manned the Emdebian stand during the
conference.

As this was a shared conference with Mac people, Neil ensured that an
iBook G4 laptop running Debian Lenny was available to catch the eye.
Connected to the Mac was the Balloon3 development kit, kindly donated by
Toby!Churchill Ltd., running
Emdebian 1.0 (based on Debian 5.0 "Lenny") which attracted a lot of
attention. On the third day of the conference, Nick brought along a
Lightwriter (based on Balloon2) to demonstrate the commercial application
for the board and this was much appreciated by visitors and exhibitors
alike.

As before with LinuxWorldExpo, most visitors were new to GNU/Linux or
to Debian and we took the chance to explain how the freedom of the source
code supports an ever wider range of packages, systems and devices.

Other developments included discussions with other Debian developers
about issues within Emdebian that will be incorporated into future
emdebian-tools code and ideas for developments in Debian to assist
Emdebian that will be discussed further within Debian once Lenny is
finally released. A possible Emdebian/Debian port to the Elonex1 (mips)
mini-laptop may arise from discussions between exhibitors
at the end of the conference.